Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Anna Christie (1930)- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, Marie Dressler… - Ayoung woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. Garbo's first…
Big Trail, The (1930)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel… - The film that elevated a young John Wayne from bit–part actor to leading man is this grand saga of a wagon trail, shot in an early form of 70mm.
Blood of a Poet (1930)- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton - Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, The (1930)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings - A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
City Girl (1930)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence - Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
Earth (Zemlya) (1930)- Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
Films of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste - Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Gangster Films, The: Three Silent Films by Yasujiro Ozu (Walk Cheerfully, That Night's Wife, Dragnet Girl) (1930-1933)- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
- Criterion collection of three silent crime films made by prolific Japanese director Ozu before his reputation for post–WWII domestic dramas was…
Hell's Angels (1930)- Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon… - Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Hitchcock Showcase (1930)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Four films from the early career of suspense's elder statesman, available on twin cassettes – MURDER (1930), SKIN GAME (1931), NUMBER 17…
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